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Cocktails: Six More Rescued

Today I rescued six more cocktails from the pages of my reviews and placed them into my cocktail menus, two gin recipes, two whiskey recipes, and two more rum recipes. My gin recipes were first published when I reviewed Tangueray No. 10 Gin. They are both variations of the Gin Gimlet.

The first is called the Key Lime Gimlet and is pictured to the left. Using key limes instead of regular lime in the recipe gives the gimlet a little different flavour, which I find really mixes well with gin.

The second recipe called the Key Lime Slushy for gin is basically a blenderized version of the gimlet with crushed ice and grenadine. The grenadine is their purely for aesthetics and can certainly be replaced with simple sugar.

The two whiskey recipes added today are of completely different origins. The first the Double Diamond Fizz is my first ‘fizz’ style recipe added to the database. Although I am using a particular whisky in the recipe it is actually quite easy to sub in any rye or Irish whiskey into the recipe.

Count Turf is a recipe based upon a Martini contest held in 1951. The winning entry was dubbed The 1951 Martini. When I looked at the recipe I knew I could use a similar approach with a nice Kentucky Bourbon. I explain it a little more in the recipe write-up.

The final two recipes added today are rum based drinks. They are perhaps two of my nicest constructions. The first, Romantic Traffic, uses Aged Barbados rum as its base mixing with Curacao and gin. It is a little boozy, but it is also delicious.

The second rum cocktail uses light amber rum and a nice long combination of grapefruit and pineapple. I decided to call it Enjoy The Moment. It is perhaps my favourite of the six cocktails introduced today. Here are the final two recipes: